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<ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#web.xml_configuration">web.xml configuration</a></li><li><a href="#context.xml_configuration">context.xml configuration</a></li><li><a href="#Global_configuration">Global configuration</a></li><li><a href="#Using_resources">Using resources</a></li><li><a href="#Tomcat_Standard_Resource_Factories">Tomcat Standard Resource Factories</a><ol><li><a href="#Generic_JavaBean_Resources">Generic JavaBean Resources</a></li><li><a href="#UserDatabase_Resources">UserDatabase Resources</a></li><li><a href="#JavaMail_Sessions">JavaMail Sessions</a></li><li><a href="#JDBC_Data_Sources">JDBC Data Sources</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="#Adding_Custom_Resource_Factories">Adding Custom Resource Factories</a></li></ul>
</div><h3 id="Introduction">Introduction</h3><div class="text">

<p>Tomcat provides a JNDI <strong>InitialContext</strong> implementation
instance for each web application running under it, in a manner that is
compatible with those provided by a
<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index.html">
Java Enterprise Edition</a> application server. The Java EE standard provides
a standard set of elements in the <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> file to
reference/define resources.</p>

<p>See the following Specifications for more information about programming APIs
for JNDI, and for the features supported by Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
servers, which Tomcat emulates for the services that it provides:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jndi/index.html">
    Java Naming and Directory Interface</a> (included in JDK 1.4 onwards)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/documentation/index.html">
    Java EE Platform Specification</a> (in particular, see Chapter 5 on <em>Naming</em>)</li>
</ul>

</div><h3 id="web.xml_configuration">web.xml configuration</h3><div class="text">

<p>The following elements may be used in the web application deployment
descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) of your web application to define
resources:</p>
<ul>
<li><code><strong>&lt;env-entry&gt;</strong></code> - Environment entry, a
    single-value parameter that can be used to configure how the application
    will operate.</li>
<li><code><strong>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</strong></code> - Resource reference,
    which is typically to an object factory for resources such as a JDBC
    <code>DataSource</code>, a JavaMail <code>Session</code>, or custom
    object factories configured into Tomcat.</li>
<li><code><strong>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</strong></code> - Resource
    environment reference, a new variation of <code>resource-ref</code>
    added in Servlet 2.4 that is simpler to configure for resources
    that do not require authentication information.</li>
</ul>

<p>Providing that Tomcat is able to identify an appropriate resource factory to
use to create the resource and that no further configuration information is
required, Tomcat will use the information in <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code> to
create the resource.</p>

<p>Tomcat provides a number of Tomcat specific options for JNDI resources that
cannot be specified in web.xml. These include <code>closeMethod</code> that
enables faster cleaning-up of JNDI resources when a web application stops and
<code>singleton</code> that controls whether or not a new instance of the
resource is created for every JNDI lookup. To use these configuration options
the resource must be specified in a web application's
<a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element or in the
<a href="config/globalresources.html">
<code><strong>&lt;GlobalNamingResources&gt;</strong></code></a> element of
<code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml</code>.</p>

</div><h3 id="context.xml_configuration">context.xml configuration</h3><div class="text">

<p>If Tomcat is unable to identify the appropriate resource factory and/or
additional configuration information is required, additional Tomcat specific
configuration must be specified before Tomcat can create the resource.
Tomcat specific resource configuration is entered in
the <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> elements that
can be specified in either <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml</code> or,
preferably, the per-web-application context XML file
(<code>META-INF/context.xml</code>).</p>

<p>Tomcat specific resource configuration is performed using the following
elements in the <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a>
element:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="config/context.html#Environment_Entries">&lt;Environment&gt;</a> -
    Configure names and values for scalar environment entries that will be
    exposed to the web application through the JNDI
    <code>InitialContext</code> (equivalent to the inclusion of an
    <code>&lt;env-entry&gt;</code> element in the web application
    deployment descriptor).</li>
<li><a href="config/context.html#Resource_Definitions">&lt;Resource&gt;</a> -
    Configure the name and data type of a resource made available to the
    application (equivalent to the inclusion of a
    <code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;</code> element in the web application
    deployment descriptor).</li>
<li><a href="config/context.html#Resource_Links">&lt;ResourceLink&gt;</a> -
    Add a link to a resource defined in the global JNDI context. Use resource
    links to give a web application access to a resource defined in
    the <a href="config/globalresources.html">&lt;GlobalNamingResources&gt;</a>
    child element of the <a href="config/server.html">&lt;Server&gt;</a>
    element.</li>
<li><a href="config/context.html#Transaction">&lt;Transaction&gt;</a> -
    Add a resource factory for instantiating the UserTransaction object
    instance that is available at <code>java:comp/UserTransaction</code>.</li>

</ul>

<p>Any number of these elements may be nested inside a
<a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element and will
be associated only with that particular web application.</p>

<p>If a resource has been defined in a
<a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element it is not
necessary for that resource to be defined in <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>.
However, it is recommended to keep the entry in <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>
to document the resource requirements for the web application.</p>

<p>Where the same resource name has been defined for a
<code>&lt;env-entry&gt;</code> element included in the web application
deployment descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) and in an
<code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> element as part of the
<a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for the
web application, the values in the deployment descriptor will take precedence
<strong>only</strong> if allowed by the corresponding
<code>&lt;Environment&gt;</code> element (by setting the <code>override</code>
attribute to "true").</p>

</div><h3 id="Global_configuration">Global configuration</h3><div class="text">

<p>Tomcat maintains a separate namespace of global resources for the
entire server.  These are configured in the
<a href="config/globalresources.html">
<code><strong>&lt;GlobalNamingResources&gt;</strong></code></a> element of
<code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml</code>. You may expose these resources to
web applications by using a
<a href="config/context.html#Resource_Links">&lt;ResourceLink&gt;</a> to
include it in the per-web-application context.</p>

<p>If a resource has been defined using a
<a href="config/context.html#Resource_Links">&lt;ResourceLink&gt;</a>, it is not
necessary for that resource to be defined in <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>.
However, it is recommended to keep the entry in <code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>
to document the resource requirements for the web application.</p>

</div><h3 id="Using_resources">Using resources</h3><div class="text">

<p>The <code>InitialContext</code> is configured as a web application is
initially deployed, and is made available to web application components (for
read-only access).  All configured entries and resources are placed in
the <code>java:comp/env</code> portion of the JNDI namespace, so a typical
access to a resource - in this case, to a JDBC <code>DataSource</code> -
would look something like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>// Obtain our environment naming context
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");

// Look up our data source
DataSource ds = (DataSource)
  envCtx.lookup("jdbc/EmployeeDB");

// Allocate and use a connection from the pool
Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
... use this connection to access the database ...
conn.close();</code></pre></div>

</div><h3 id="Tomcat_Standard_Resource_Factories">Tomcat Standard Resource Factories</h3><div class="text">

  <p>Tomcat includes a series of standard resource factories that can
  provide services to your web applications, but give you configuration
  flexibility (via the
  <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element)
  without modifying the web application or the deployment descriptor. Each
  subsection below details the configuration and usage of the standard resource
  factories.</p>

  <p>See <a href="#Adding_Custom_Resource_Factories">Adding Custom
  Resource Factories</a> for information about how to create, install,
  configure, and use your own custom resource factory classes with
  Tomcat.</p>

  <p><em>NOTE</em> - Of the standard resource factories, only the
  "JDBC Data Source" and "User Transaction" factories are mandated to
  be available on other platforms, and then they are required only if
  the platform implements the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specs.
  All other standard resource factories, plus custom resource factories
  that you write yourself, are specific to Tomcat and cannot be assumed
  to be available on other containers.</p>

  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="Generic_JavaBean_Resources">Generic JavaBean Resources</h4><div class="text">

    <h5>0.  Introduction</h5>

    <p>This resource factory can be used to create objects of <em>any</em>
    Java class that conforms to standard JavaBeans naming conventions (i.e.
    it has a zero-arguments constructor, and has property setters that
    conform to the setFoo() naming pattern.  The resource factory will
    only create a new instance of the appropriate bean class every time a
    <code>lookup()</code> for this entry is made if the <code>singleton</code>
    attribute of the factory is set to <code>false</code>.</p>

    <p>The steps required to use this facility are described below.</p>

    <h5>1.  Create Your JavaBean Class</h5>

    <p>Create the JavaBean class which will be instantiated each time
    that the resource factory is looked up.  For this example, assume
    you create a class <code>com.mycompany.MyBean</code>, which looks
    like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>package com.mycompany;

public class MyBean {

  private String foo = "Default Foo";

  public String getFoo() {
    return (this.foo);
  }

  public void setFoo(String foo) {
    this.foo = foo;
  }

  private int bar = 0;

  public int getBar() {
    return (this.bar);
  }

  public void setBar(int bar) {
    this.bar = bar;
  }


}</code></pre></div>

  <h5>2.  Declare Your Resource Requirements</h5>

  <p>Next, modify your web application deployment descriptor
  (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) to declare the JNDI name under which
  you will request new instances of this bean.  The simplest approach is
  to use a <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> element, like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;
    Object factory for MyBean instances.
  &lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;resource-env-ref-name&gt;
    bean/MyBeanFactory
  &lt;/resource-env-ref-name&gt;
  &lt;resource-env-ref-type&gt;
    com.mycompany.MyBean
  &lt;/resource-env-ref-type&gt;
&lt;/resource-env-ref&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p><strong>WARNING</strong> - Be sure you respect the element ordering
    that is required by the DTD for web application deployment descriptors!
    See the
    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications">Servlet
    Specification</a> for details.</p>

  <h5>3.  Code Your Application's Use Of This Resource</h5>

  <p>A typical use of this resource environment reference might look
  like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
MyBean bean = (MyBean) envCtx.lookup("bean/MyBeanFactory");

writer.println("foo = " + bean.getFoo() + ", bar = " +
               bean.getBar());</code></pre></div>

    <h5>4.  Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory</h5>

    <p>To configure Tomcat's resource factory, add an element like this to the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    this web application.</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="bean/MyBeanFactory" auth="Container"
            type="com.mycompany.MyBean"
            factory="org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory"
            bar="23"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the resource name (here, <code>bean/MyBeanFactory</code>
    must match the value specified in the web application deployment
    descriptor.  We are also initializing the value of the <code>bar</code>
    property, which will cause <code>setBar(23)</code> to be called before
    the new bean is returned.  Because we are not initializing the
    <code>foo</code> property (although we could have), the bean will
    contain whatever default value is set up by its constructor.</p>

    <p>Some beans have properties with types that can not automatically be
    converted from a string value. Setting such properties using the Tomcat
    BeanFactory will fail with a NamingException. In cases were those beans
    provide methods to set the properties from a string value, the Tomcat
    BeanFactory can be configured to use these methods. The configuration is
    done with the <code>forceString</code> attribute.</p>

    <p>Assume our bean looks like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>package com.mycompany;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class MyBean2 {

  private InetAddress local = null;

  public InetAddress getLocal() {
    return local;
  }

  public void setLocal(InetAddress ip) {
    local = ip;
  }

  public void setLocal(String localHost) {
    try {
      local = InetAddress.getByName(localHost);
    } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
    }
  }

  private InetAddress remote = null;

  public InetAddress getRemote() {
    return remote;
  }

  public void setRemote(InetAddress ip) {
    remote = ip;
  }

  public void host(String remoteHost) {
    try {
      remote = InetAddress.getByName(remoteHost);
    } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
    }
  }

}</code></pre></div>

    <p>The bean has two properties, both are of type <code>InetAddress</code>.
    The first property <code>local</code> has an additional setter taking a
    string argument. By default the Tomcat BeanFactory would try to use the
    automatically detected setter with the same argument type as the property
    type and then throw a NamingException, because it is not prepared to convert
    the given string attribute value to <code>InetAddress</code>.
    We can tell the Tomcat BeanFactory to use the other setter like that:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="bean/MyBeanFactory" auth="Container"
            type="com.mycompany.MyBean2"
            factory="org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory"
            forceString="local"
            local="localhost"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>The bean property <code>remote</code> can also be set from a string,
    but one has to use the non-standard method name <code>host</code>.
    To set <code>local</code> and <code>remote</code> use the following
    configuration:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="bean/MyBeanFactory" auth="Container"
            type="com.mycompany.MyBean2"
            factory="org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory"
            forceString="local,remote=host"
            local="localhost"
            remote="tomcat.apache.org"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>Multiple property descriptions can be combined in
    <code>forceString</code> by concatenation with comma as a separator.
    Each property description consists of either only the property name
    in which case the BeanFactory calls the setter method. Or it consist
    of <code>name=method</code> in which case the property named
    <code>name</code> is set by calling method <code>method</code>.
    For properties of types <code>String</code> or of primitive type
    or of their associated primitive wrapper classes using
    <code>forceString</code> is not needed. The correct setter will be
    automatically detected and argument conversion will be applied.</p>

  </div></div>


  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="UserDatabase_Resources">UserDatabase Resources</h4><div class="text">

    <h5>0.  Introduction</h5>

    <p>UserDatabase resources are typically configured as global resources for
    use by a UserDatabase realm. Tomcat includes a UserDatabaseFactoory that
    creates UserDatabase resources backed by an XML file - usually
    <code>tomcat-users.xml</code></p>

    <p>The steps required to set up a global UserDatabase resource are described
    below.</p>

    <h5>1. Create/edit the XML file</h5>

    <p>The XML file is typically located at
    <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml</code> however, you are free to
    locate the file anywhere on the file system. It is recommended that the XML
    files are placed in <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf</code>. A typical XML would
    look like:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?&gt;
&lt;tomcat-users&gt;
  &lt;role rolename="tomcat"/&gt;
  &lt;role rolename="role1"/&gt;
  &lt;user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/&gt;
  &lt;user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/&gt;
  &lt;user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/&gt;
&lt;/tomcat-users&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <h5>2.  Declare Your Resource</h5>

    <p>Next, modify <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml</code> to create the
    UserDatabase resource based on your XML file. It should look something like
    this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Resource name="UserDatabase"
          auth="Container"
          type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
          description="User database that can be updated and saved"
          factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
          pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"
          readonly="false" /&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>The <code>pathname</code> attribute can be a URL, an absolute path or a
    relative path. If relative, it is relative to <code>$CATALINA_BASE</code>.
    </p>

    <p>The <code>readonly</code> attribute is optional and defaults to
    <code>true</code> if not supplied. If the XML is writeable then it will be
    written to when Tomcat starts. <strong>WARNING:</strong> When the file is
    written it will inherit the default file permissions for the user Tomcat
    is running as. Ensure that these are appropriate to maintain the security
    of your installation.</p>

    <h5>3.  Configure the Realm</h5>

    <p>Configure a UserDatabase Realm to use this resource as described in the
    <a href="config/realm.html">Realm configuration documentation</a>.</p>

  </div></div>


  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="JavaMail_Sessions">JavaMail Sessions</h4><div class="text">

    <h5>0.  Introduction</h5>

    <p>In many web applications, sending electronic mail messages is a
    required part of the system's functionality.  The
    <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamail/index.html">Java Mail</a> API
    makes this process relatively straightforward, but requires many
    configuration details that the client application must be aware of
    (including the name of the SMTP host to be used for message sending).</p>

    <p>Tomcat includes a standard resource factory that will create
    <code>javax.mail.Session</code> session instances for you, already
    configured to connect to an SMTP server.
    In this way, the application is totally insulated from changes in the
    email server configuration environment - it simply asks for, and receives,
    a preconfigured session whenever needed.</p>

    <p>The steps required for this are outlined below.</p>

    <h5>1.  Declare Your Resource Requirements</h5>

    <p>The first thing you should do is modify the web application deployment
    descriptor (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) to declare the JNDI name under
    which you will look up preconfigured sessions.  By convention, all such
    names should resolve to the <code>mail</code> subcontext (relative to the
    standard <code>java:comp/env</code> naming context that is the root of
    all provided resource factories.  A typical <code>web.xml</code> entry
    might look like this:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;
    Resource reference to a factory for javax.mail.Session
    instances that may be used for sending electronic mail
    messages, preconfigured to connect to the appropriate
    SMTP server.
  &lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;res-ref-name&gt;
    mail/Session
  &lt;/res-ref-name&gt;
  &lt;res-type&gt;
    javax.mail.Session
  &lt;/res-type&gt;
  &lt;res-auth&gt;
    Container
  &lt;/res-auth&gt;
&lt;/resource-ref&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p><strong>WARNING</strong> - Be sure you respect the element ordering
    that is required by the DTD for web application deployment descriptors!
    See the
    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications">Servlet
    Specification</a> for details.</p>

    <h5>2.  Code Your Application's Use Of This Resource</h5>

    <p>A typical use of this resource reference might look like this:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
Session session = (Session) envCtx.lookup("mail/Session");

Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(request.getParameter("from")));
InternetAddress to[] = new InternetAddress[1];
to[0] = new InternetAddress(request.getParameter("to"));
message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, to);
message.setSubject(request.getParameter("subject"));
message.setContent(request.getParameter("content"), "text/plain");
Transport.send(message);</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the application uses the same resource reference name
    that was declared in the web application deployment descriptor.  This
    is matched up against the resource factory that is configured in the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element
    for the web application as described below.</p>

    <h5>3.  Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory</h5>

    <p>To configure Tomcat's resource factory, add an elements like this to the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    this web application.</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="mail/Session" auth="Container"
            type="javax.mail.Session"
            mail.smtp.host="localhost"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the resource name (here, <code>mail/Session</code>) must
    match the value specified in the web application deployment descriptor.
    Customize the value of the <code>mail.smtp.host</code> parameter to
    point at the server that provides SMTP service for your network.</p>

    <p>Additional resource attributes and values will be converted to properties
    and values and passed to
    <code>javax.mail.Session.getInstance(java.util.Properties)</code> as part of
    the <code>java.util.Properties</code> collection. In addition to the
    properties defined in Annex A of the JavaMail specification, individual
    providers may also support additional properties.
    </p>

    <p>If the resource is configured with a <code>password</code> attribute and
    either a <code>mail.smtp.user</code> or <code>mail.user</code> attribute
    then Tomcat's resource factory will configure and add a
    <code>javax.mail.Authenticator</code> to the mail session.</p>

    <h5>4.  Install the JavaMail libraries</h5>

    <p><a href="http://javamail.java.net/">
    Download the JavaMail API</a>.</p>

    <p>Unpackage the distribution and place mail.jar  into $CATALINA_HOME/lib so
    that it is available to Tomcat during the initialization of the mail Session
    Resource. <strong>Note:</strong> placing this jar in both $CATALINA_HOME/lib
    and a  web application's lib folder will cause an error, so ensure you have
    it in the $CATALINA_HOME/lib location only.
    </p>

    <h5>5.  Restart Tomcat</h5>

    <p>For the additional JAR to be visible to Tomcat, it is necessary for the
    Tomcat instance to be restarted.</p>


    <h5>Example Application</h5>

    <p>The <code>/examples</code> application included with Tomcat contains
    an example of utilizing this resource factory.  It is accessed via the
    "JSP Examples" link.  The source code for the servlet that actually
    sends the mail message is in
    <code>/WEB-INF/classes/SendMailServlet.java</code>.</p>

    <p><strong>WARNING</strong> - The default configuration assumes that there
    is an SMTP server listing on port 25 on <code>localhost</code>. If this is
    not the case, edit the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    this web application and modify the parameter value for the
    <code>mail.smtp.host</code> parameter to be the host name of an SMTP server
    on your network.</p>

  </div></div>

  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="JDBC_Data_Sources">JDBC Data Sources</h4><div class="text">

    <h5>0.  Introduction</h5>

    <p>Many web applications need to access a database via a JDBC driver,
    to support the functionality required by that application.  The Java EE
    Platform Specification requires Java EE Application Servers to make
    available a <em>DataSource</em> implementation (that is, a connection
    pool for JDBC connections) for this purpose.  Tomcat offers exactly
    the same support, so that database-based applications you develop on
    Tomcat using this service will run unchanged on any Java EE server.</p>

    <p>For information about JDBC, you should consult the following:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdbc/index.html">
        http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdbc/index.html</a> -
        Home page for information about Java Database Connectivity.</li>
    <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/spec2/jdbc2.1.frame.html">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/spec2/jdbc2.1.frame.html</a> -
        The JDBC 2.1 API Specification.</li>
    <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbc20.stdext.pdf">http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbc20.stdext.pdf</a> -
        The JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension API (including the
        <code>javax.sql.DataSource</code> API).  This package is now known
        as the "JDBC Optional Package".</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index.htm">
        http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index.htm</a> -
        The Java EE Platform Specification (covers the JDBC facilities that
        all Java EE platforms must provide to applications).</li>
    </ul>

    <p><strong>NOTE</strong> - The default data source support in Tomcat
    is based on the <strong>DBCP</strong> connection pool from the
    <a href="http://commons.apache.org/">Commons</a>
    project.  However, it is possible to use any other connection pool
    that implements <code>javax.sql.DataSource</code>, by writing your
    own custom resource factory, as described
    <a href="#Adding_Custom_Resource_Factories">below</a>.</p>

    <h5>1.  Install Your JDBC Driver</h5>

    <p>Use of the <em>JDBC Data Sources</em> JNDI Resource Factory requires
    that you make an appropriate JDBC driver available to both Tomcat internal
    classes and to your web application.  This is most easily accomplished by
    installing the driver's JAR file(s) into the
    <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> directory, which makes the driver
    available both to the resource factory and to your application.</p>

    <h5>2.  Declare Your Resource Requirements</h5>

    <p>Next, modify the web application deployment descriptor
    (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) to declare the JNDI name under
    which you will look up preconfigured data source.  By convention, all such
    names should resolve to the <code>jdbc</code> subcontext (relative to the
    standard <code>java:comp/env</code> naming context that is the root of
    all provided resource factories.  A typical <code>web.xml</code> entry
    might look like this:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;resource-ref&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;
    Resource reference to a factory for java.sql.Connection
    instances that may be used for talking to a particular
    database that is configured in the &lt;Context&gt;
    configuration for the web application.
  &lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;res-ref-name&gt;
    jdbc/EmployeeDB
  &lt;/res-ref-name&gt;
  &lt;res-type&gt;
    javax.sql.DataSource
  &lt;/res-type&gt;
  &lt;res-auth&gt;
    Container
  &lt;/res-auth&gt;
&lt;/resource-ref&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p><strong>WARNING</strong> - Be sure you respect the element ordering
    that is required by the DTD for web application deployment descriptors!
    See the
    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications">Servlet
    Specification</a> for details.</p>

    <h5>3.  Code Your Application's Use Of This Resource</h5>

    <p>A typical use of this resource reference might look like this:</p>
<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
DataSource ds = (DataSource)
  envCtx.lookup("jdbc/EmployeeDB");

Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
... use this connection to access the database ...
conn.close();</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the application uses the same resource reference name that was
    declared in the web application deployment descriptor. This is matched up
    against the resource factory that is configured in the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    the web application as described below.</p>

    <h5>4.  Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory</h5>

    <p>To configure Tomcat's resource factory, add an element like this to the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    the web application.</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB"
            auth="Container"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
            username="dbusername"
            password="dbpassword"
            driverClassName="org.hsql.jdbcDriver"
            url="jdbc:HypersonicSQL:database"
            maxTotal="8"
            maxIdle="4"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the resource name (here, <code>jdbc/EmployeeDB</code>) must
    match the value specified in the web application deployment descriptor.</p>

    <p>This example assumes that you are using the HypersonicSQL database
    JDBC driver.  Customize the <code>driverClassName</code> and
    <code>driverName</code> parameters to match your actual database's
    JDBC driver and connection URL.</p>

    <p>The configuration properties for Tomcat's standard data source
    resource factory
    (<code>org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory</code>) are
    as follows:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><strong>driverClassName</strong> - Fully qualified Java class name
        of the JDBC driver to be used.</li>
    <li><strong>username</strong> - Database username to be passed to our
        JDBC driver.</li>
    <li><strong>password</strong> - Database password to be passed to our
        JDBC driver.</li>
    <li><strong>url</strong> - Connection URL to be passed to our JDBC driver.
        (For backwards compatibility, the property <code>driverName</code>
        is also recognized.)</li>
    <li><strong>initialSize</strong> - The initial number of connections
        that will be created in the pool during pool initialization. Default: 0</li>
    <li><strong>maxTotal</strong> - The maximum number of connections
        that can be allocated from this pool at the same time. Default: 8</li>
    <li><strong>minIdle</strong> - The minimum number of connections that
        will sit idle in this pool at the same time. Default: 0</li>
    <li><strong>maxIdle</strong> - The maximum number of connections that
        can sit idle in this pool at the same time. Default: 8</li>
    <li><strong>maxWaitMillis</strong> - The maximum number of milliseconds that the
        pool will wait (when there are no available connections) for a
        connection to be returned before throwing an exception. Default: -1 (infinite)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Some additional properties handle connection validation:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><strong>validationQuery</strong> - SQL query that can be used by the
        pool to validate connections before they are returned to the
        application.  If specified, this query MUST be an SQL SELECT
        statement that returns at least one row.</li>
    <li><strong>validationQueryTimeout</strong> - Timeout in seconds
        for the validation query to return. Default: -1 (infinite)</li>
    <li><strong>testOnBorrow</strong> - true or false: whether a connection
        should be validated using the validation query each time it is
        borrowed from the pool. Default: true</li>
    <li><strong>testOnReturn</strong> - true or false: whether a connection
        should be validated using the validation query each time it is
        returned to the pool. Default: false</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The optional evictor thread is responsible for shrinking the pool
    by removing any connections which are idle for a long time. The evictor
    does not respect <code>minIdle</code>. Note that you do not need to
    activate the evictor thread if you only want the pool to shrink according
    to the configured <code>maxIdle</code> property.</p>
    <p>The evictor is disabled by default and can be configured using
    the following properties:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><strong>timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis</strong> - The number of
        milliseconds between consecutive runs of the evictor.
        Default: -1 (disabled)</li>
    <li><strong>numTestsPerEvictionRun</strong> - The number of connections
        that will be checked for idleness by the evictor during each
        run of the evictor. Default: 3</li>
    <li><strong>minEvictableIdleTimeMillis</strong> - The idle time in
        milliseconds after which a connection can be removed from the pool
        by the evictor. Default: 30*60*1000 (30 minutes)</li>
    <li><strong>testWhileIdle</strong> - true or false: whether a connection
        should be validated by the evictor thread using the validation query
        while sitting idle in the pool. Default: false</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Another optional feature is the removal of abandoned connections.
    A connection is called abandoned if the application does not return it
    to the pool for a long time. The pool can close such connections
    automatically and remove them from the pool. This is a workaround
    for applications leaking connections.</p>
    <p>The abandoning feature is disabled by default and can be configured
    using the following properties:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><strong>removeAbandoned</strong> - true or false: whether to
        remove abandoned connections from the pool. Default: false</li>
    <li><strong>removeAbandonedTimeout</strong> - The number of
        seconds after which a borrowed connection is assumed to be abandoned.
        Default: 300</li>
    <li><strong>logAbandoned</strong> - true or false: whether to log
        stack traces for application code which abandoned a statement
        or connection. This adds serious overhead. Default: false</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Finally there are various properties that allow further fine tuning
    of the pool behaviour:</p>
    <ul>
    <li><strong>defaultAutoCommit</strong> - true or false: default
        auto-commit state of the connections created by this pool.
        Default: true</li>
    <li><strong>defaultReadOnly</strong> - true or false: default
        read-only state of the connections created by this pool.
        Default: false</li>
    <li><strong>defaultTransactionIsolation</strong> - This sets the
        default transaction isolation level. Can be one of
        <code>NONE</code>, <code>READ_COMMITTED</code>,
        <code>READ_UNCOMMITTED</code>, <code>REPEATABLE_READ</code>,
        <code>SERIALIZABLE</code>. Default: no default set</li>
    <li><strong>poolPreparedStatements</strong> - true or false: whether to
        pool PreparedStatements and CallableStatements. Default: false</li>
    <li><strong>maxOpenPreparedStatements</strong> - The maximum number of open
        statements that can be allocated from the statement pool at the same time.
        Default: -1 (unlimited)</li>
    <li><strong>defaultCatalog</strong> - The name of the default catalog.
        Default: not set</li>
    <li><strong>connectionInitSqls</strong> - A list of SQL statements
        run once after a Connection is created. Separate multiple statements
        by semicolons (<code>;</code>). Default: no statement</li>
    <li><strong>connectionProperties</strong> - A list of driver specific
        properties passed to the driver for creating connections. Each
        property is given as <code>name=value</code>, multiple properties
        are separated by semicolons (<code>;</code>). Default: no properties</li>
    <li><strong>accessToUnderlyingConnectionAllowed</strong> - true or false: whether
        accessing the underlying connections is allowed. Default: false</li>
    </ul>
    <p>For more details, please refer to the commons-dbcp documentation.</p>

  </div></div>

</div><h3 id="Adding_Custom_Resource_Factories">Adding Custom Resource Factories</h3><div class="text">

  <p>If none of the standard resource factories meet your needs, you can write
  your own factory and integrate it into Tomcat, and then configure the use
  of this factory in the
  <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
  the web application. In the example below, we will create a factory that only
  knows how to create <code>com.mycompany.MyBean</code> beans from the
  <a href="#Generic_JavaBean_Resources">Generic JavaBean Resources</a> example
  above.</p>

  <h4>1.  Write A Resource Factory Class</h4>

  <p>You must write a class that implements the JNDI service provider
  <code>javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory</code> interface.  Every time your
  web application calls <code>lookup()</code> on a context entry that is
  bound to this factory (assuming that the factory is configured with
  <code>singleton="false"</code>), the
  <code>getObjectInstance()</code> method is called, with the following
  arguments:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><strong>Object obj</strong> - The (possibly null) object containing
      location or reference information that can be used in creating an object.
      For Tomcat, this will always be an object of type
      <code>javax.naming.Reference</code>, which contains the class name of
      this factory class, as well as the configuration properties (from the
      <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> for the
      web application) to use in creating objects to be returned.</li>
  <li><strong>Name name</strong> - The name to which this factory is bound
      relative to <code>nameCtx</code>, or <code>null</code> if no name
      is specified.</li>
  <li><strong>Context nameCtx</strong> - The context relative to which the
      <code>name</code> parameter is specified, or <code>null</code> if
      <code>name</code> is relative to the default initial context.</li>
  <li><strong>Hashtable environment</strong> - The (possibly null)
      environment that is used in creating this object.  This is generally
      ignored in Tomcat object factories.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>To create a resource factory that knows how to produce <code>MyBean</code>
  instances, you might create a class like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>package com.mycompany;

import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.Name;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.RefAddr;
import javax.naming.Reference;
import javax.naming.spi.ObjectFactory;

public class MyBeanFactory implements ObjectFactory {

  public Object getObjectInstance(Object obj,
      Name name2, Context nameCtx, Hashtable environment)
      throws NamingException {

      // Acquire an instance of our specified bean class
      MyBean bean = new MyBean();

      // Customize the bean properties from our attributes
      Reference ref = (Reference) obj;
      Enumeration addrs = ref.getAll();
      while (addrs.hasMoreElements()) {
          RefAddr addr = (RefAddr) addrs.nextElement();
          String name = addr.getType();
          String value = (String) addr.getContent();
          if (name.equals("foo")) {
              bean.setFoo(value);
          } else if (name.equals("bar")) {
              try {
                  bean.setBar(Integer.parseInt(value));
              } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                  throw new NamingException("Invalid 'bar' value " + value);
              }
          }
      }

      // Return the customized instance
      return (bean);

  }

}</code></pre></div>

  <p>In this example, we are unconditionally creating a new instance of
  the <code>com.mycompany.MyBean</code> class, and populating its properties
  based on the parameters included in the <code>&lt;ResourceParams&gt;</code>
  element that configures this factory (see below).  You should note that any
  parameter named <code>factory</code> should be skipped - that parameter is
  used to specify the name of the factory class itself (in this case,
  <code>com.mycompany.MyBeanFactory</code>) rather than a property of the
  bean being configured.</p>

  <p>For more information about <code>ObjectFactory</code>, see the
  <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jndi/index.html">
  JNDI Service Provider Interface (SPI) Specification</a>.</p>

  <p>You will need to compile this class against a class path that includes
  all of the JAR files in the <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code> directory.  When you are through,
  place the factory class (and the corresponding bean class) unpacked under
  <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code>, or in a JAR file inside
  <code>$CATALINA_HOME/lib</code>.  In this way, the required class
  files are visible to both Catalina internal resources and your web
  application.</p>

  <h4>2.  Declare Your Resource Requirements</h4>

  <p>Next, modify your web application deployment descriptor
  (<code>/WEB-INF/web.xml</code>) to declare the JNDI name under which
  you will request new instances of this bean.  The simplest approach is
  to use a <code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;</code> element, like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;resource-env-ref&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;
    Object factory for MyBean instances.
  &lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;resource-env-ref-name&gt;
    bean/MyBeanFactory
  &lt;/resource-env-ref-name&gt;
  &lt;resource-env-ref-type&gt;
    com.mycompany.MyBean
  &lt;/resource-env-ref-type&gt;
&lt;/resource-env-ref&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p><strong>WARNING</strong> - Be sure you respect the element ordering
    that is required by the DTD for web application deployment descriptors!
    See the
    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Specifications">Servlet
    Specification</a> for details.</p>

  <h4>3.  Code Your Application's Use Of This Resource</h4>

  <p>A typical use of this resource environment reference might look
  like this:</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
MyBean bean = (MyBean) envCtx.lookup("bean/MyBeanFactory");

writer.println("foo = " + bean.getFoo() + ", bar = " +
               bean.getBar());</code></pre></div>

    <h4>4.  Configure Tomcat's Resource Factory</h4>

    <p>To configure Tomcat's resource factory, add an elements like this to the
    <a href="config/context.html"><code>&lt;Context&gt;</code></a> element for
    this web application.</p>

<div class="codeBox"><pre><code>&lt;Context ...&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Resource name="bean/MyBeanFactory" auth="Container"
            type="com.mycompany.MyBean"
            factory="com.mycompany.MyBeanFactory"
            singleton="false"
            bar="23"/&gt;
  ...
&lt;/Context&gt;</code></pre></div>

    <p>Note that the resource name (here, <code>bean/MyBeanFactory</code>
    must match the value specified in the web application deployment
    descriptor.  We are also initializing the value of the <code>bar</code>
    property, which will cause <code>setBar(23)</code> to be called before
    the new bean is returned.  Because we are not initializing the
    <code>foo</code> property (although we could have), the bean will
    contain whatever default value is set up by its constructor.</p>

    <p>You will also note that, from the application developer's perspective,
    the declaration of the resource environment reference, and the programming
    used to request new instances, is identical to the approach used for the
    <em>Generic JavaBean Resources</em> example.  This illustrates one of the
    advantages of using JNDI resources to encapsulate functionality - you can
    change the underlying implementation without necessarily having to
    modify applications using the resources, as long as you maintain
    compatible APIs.</p>

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